IDPs given latest equipment

Technical equipment valued at Rs. 756,192 was handed over to the Internally Displaced People, through the Vidatha Resource Centres, by Science and Technology Ministry this week.

The Ministry said the equipment, including yoghurt incubators; bakery technology ovens, vegetable dehydrators and wood gas stoves, were distributed in the Manner and Vavuniya districts to transfer technology to the needy people.

The Ministry of Science and Technology, through its Vidatha Resource Centres, scattered throughout the country has taken several measures to help the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in the North and the East provinces under the Programme, Wadakkin Wasantham, the Ministry said.

Science and Technology Minister Professor Tissa Vitarana told The Island yesterday many training programmes on Soil Cement Manufacturing Process of the National Engineering Research and Development Centre (NERD) have been held for IDPs to enable them to access technology to build their own shelters with the low cost housing construction technology. Read more ...